[Rockhounds] Terraforming Mars might be impossible? for now

[J Bryan Kramer]

I'll look for, is mostly set ar, no surprise I haven't seen it. That author
is unknown.

Of course the current SF hit, the Expanse is mostly set around an asteroid
belt civilization.

BK

“When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall one by
one, an unpitied sacrifice in a contemptible struggle.” is mostly set
around a
Edmund Burke

J Bryan Krämer       North Florida, USA
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On Sun, Mar 15, 2020 at 4:39 PM Alan Silverstein <ajs at silgro.com> wrote:

> > I missed the that sf story you refer to Alan, I'll have to see if I
> > can find it.
>
> I just did a little hunting but no joy, although there's an amazing
> Wikipedia cluster of pages around fiction involving asteroids!  I
> vaguely recall maybe it had something to do with getting one asteroid
> into Earth orbit to capture (internally) a small black hole that had
> dropped into the planet and was orbiting through it, wreaking havoc.
>
> I did find this webpage about "asteroid billiards", albeit not the same
> core concept:
>
>
> https://www.space.com/41592-asteroid-billiards-smashing-dangerous-space-rocks.html
>
> You got me hunting further, and...  Aha!  Maybe it was "The Doomsday
> Effect", 1986, by Thomas T Thomas; although I can't prove it's the right
> one from the abstract, nor from the Amazon free-view pages (early in the
> story).
>
> Cheers,
> Alan Silverstein
>
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